Minding the gap between the front and back offices: A systemic analysis of the offshore oil and gas upstream supply chain for framing digital transformation

IF 1.6 3区工程技术 Q4 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1002/sys.21652

Karen V. Czachorowski, Cecilia Haskins, M. Mansouri

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Abstract

The offshore oil and gas upstream supply chain operations are part of a complex system with many stakeholders and intricate relationships. Traditionally, these operations are managed manually, which leads to inefficiencies. Despite the innovative and engineering‐orientated approaches adopted in other technical operations of the industry, the supply chain activities remain unchanged, relying heavily on legacy systems. However, cutting‐edge technology opportunities are available for adoption in supply chain management systems in the oil and gas industry. Such a transformative upgrade relies on first understanding the operational inefficiencies and preparing an accurate picture for how these operations should be performed. This study adopts a systemic approach to examine the oil and gas offshore supply chain operations of a case company to identify areas for improvement. The objective is to address the following research questions: (1) what is the current “AS‐IS” supply chain operations support; and (2) what is the desired “TO‐BE” state for these operations. This research adopts a soft systems lenses applied in an action research project to capture and analyze existing operations. The research revealed that information exchange is a major barrier, and that technology and organizational gaps are the primary hindrance for a digital transformation. The conclusion is that there is a need for a higher level of data exchange and increased data quality in any proposed transformation.

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关注前台和后台之间的差距:海上油气上游供应链的系统分析，以框架数字化转型

海上油气上游供应链运营是一个复杂系统的一部分，有许多利益相关者和错综复杂的关系。传统上，这些操作都是手工管理的，这导致了效率低下。尽管在行业的其他技术操作中采用了创新和以工程为导向的方法，但供应链活动仍然保持不变，严重依赖遗留系统。然而，在油气行业的供应链管理系统中采用尖端技术是有机会的。这种变革性的升级依赖于首先了解操作的低效率，并为如何执行这些操作准备准确的图片。本研究采用系统的方法来考察案例公司的石油和天然气海上供应链运营，以确定需要改进的领域。目标是解决以下研究问题:(1)当前的“AS - is”供应链运营支持是什么;(2)这些操作所需的“TO - BE”状态是什么。本研究采用行动研究项目中应用的软系统视角来捕捉和分析现有的操作。研究显示，信息交换是主要障碍，技术和组织差距是数字化转型的主要障碍。结论是，在任何提议的转换中，都需要更高级别的数据交换和更高的数据质量。

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Systems Engineering 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Systems Engineering is a discipline whose responsibility it is to create and operate technologically enabled systems that satisfy stakeholder needs throughout their life cycle. Systems engineers reduce ambiguity by clearly defining stakeholder needs and customer requirements, they focus creativity by developing a system’s architecture and design and they manage the system’s complexity over time. Considerations taken into account by systems engineers include, among others, quality, cost and schedule, risk and opportunity under uncertainty, manufacturing and realization, performance and safety during operations, training and support, as well as disposal and recycling at the end of life. The journal welcomes original submissions in the field of Systems Engineering as defined above, but also encourages contributions that take an even broader perspective including the design and operation of systems-of-systems, the application of Systems Engineering to enterprises and complex socio-technical systems, the identification, selection and development of systems engineers as well as the evolution of systems and systems-of-systems over their entire lifecycle. Systems Engineering integrates all the disciplines and specialty groups into a coordinated team effort forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to realization to operation. Increasingly important topics in Systems Engineering include the role of executable languages and models of systems, the concurrent use of physical and virtual prototyping, as well as the deployment of agile processes. Systems Engineering considers both the business and the technical needs of all stakeholders with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs. Systems Engineering may be applied not only to products and services in the private sector but also to public infrastructures and socio-technical systems whose precise boundaries are often challenging to define.